„ t5M 4 
Penknife, and found that each Part, from the Firft, 
continued vigorous and ftrongj and I could, by my 
naked Eye only, lee that in Three Days the Ends 
where the Wounds were given, were grown (harper, 
.and that they moved along like the intire Worms. 
I am, 
melt ham in Stiff. ‘ThomClS Lord* 
June i. 1743. 
The 1 wo intire Worms here mentioned to have 
been contained in one of the Phials fent up by Mr. 
Lord, were each cut prefently after into Two Pieces y 
which foon after completed themfelves , grew longer , 
and were fever al Weeks after in a vigorous and 
thriving Condition - 
VIII. A Letter from Dr. Parfons to Martin 
Folkes, Efq$ Prefident of the Royal So- 
ciety, containing the Natural Hijlory of 
the Rhinoceros. 
w t * 4 J % k A '> / -» r 7 . i U . i J 1 .. V ) l .j e 1 - I * 
SIR, 
-Read junep; A Lthough many Authors have given 
I?43 ’ / \ Accounts and Figures of the Rhi- 
noceros from time to time, and although there was 
one in England in 1685. yet how far were we from 
having the lead Notion of his Form, when we came 
to fee him in 1739. It was not difficult, even be- 
fore the Arrival of the latter here, to difeern an 
Uncertainty in the Figures that were exhibited of that 
Animal, becaufe they differed fo widely from each 
Y y y 2 other. 
